March 2010 Blog Posts (19)

Over 12,000 dogs and cats come through the Knox/Whitley animal shelter each year. Unfortunately most of those poor souls are euthanized. The website for this animal shelter is: www.knox/whitleyanimalshelter.com. I am a volunteer for this animal shelter and there is so much that can be done to help. It is my goal to raise awareness in my community and in our schools about the problems people create when they don't spay…

Those who accept speciesism often do so because they believe humans
“superior” on the basis of rationality and empathy, but in a terrible
twist of irony, reject all rationality and empathy in refusing to
acknowledge sentience as the morally relevant characteristic on which
to base inclusion in the moral community. In refusing to apply such
rationality and empathy, they behave far worse than the nonhuman
animals toward whom they… Continue

I haven't read Lierre Kieth's book in its entirety and I can't say that I
care that much about it. I know that she is an ex-vegan, and I wish it
were otherwise. But someone hit Keith in the face with pies (allegedly)
laced with cayenne pepper at a recent speaking… Continue

Will Tuttle’s The World Peace Diet hit number 1 yesterday on Amazon.com. Today, it’s number 11 (Amazon updates hourly), but still, this was a serious feat. I like to research questions to inform my views (and I like data as a general matter). So, I did some quick key word search at Amazon and at Google.

As I understand "best-seller", what that means is that for part of the day yesterday, Will’s… Continue

Animal Protection Trial – Week 2…

In my previous blog post, Partners in Exploitation, I discussed the various labeling schemes endorsed and promoted by HSUS, PETA, and other animal welfare corporations.

Well low and behold, yesterday, I went to the local Whole Foods Market, you know, the one to which PETA gave the Best Animal-Friendly Retailer award, and I picked up a copy of the Whole Foods magazine, “Whole Deal.”

And there was a coupon for “All Natural Brown Cow Parfaits,”… Continue

It is important to understand that there are significant differences among those who regard themselves as vegans.

One important difference is between those who maintain that veganism is merely a way of reducing suffering, and those who maintain that it is a fundamental commitment to justice, nonviolence, and a recognition of the moral personhood of nonhuman animals.

A tabloid journalist recently wrote blatant lies and gross distortions on my views on human-nonhuman relations. For example, he said that I believe that nonhuman animals have "all the same rights" as human beings. To say such a silly thing shows that the man did not read my work; or failed to understand it, and has never read so much as a single page of animal rights…

I am often surprised by the lack of sincerity and the underhandedness of many of the 'would-be figureheads' in the animal advocacy community. Misrepresentation has become a business model. But in spite of their
protestations about “understanding the differences between welfare and… Continue

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